[Tutor] uid

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 02:09:15PM +0200, Joerg Woelke wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:17:56PM +0200, Hans Gubitz wrote:
> > I want to cp a file and extract it to different users. I can do this
> > as root, but I want extract  to be done with the uid of the user.
> > 
> > import os, pwd
> > users = ['usera','userb']
> > 
> > def copy(user):
> >         list = pwd.getpwnam(user)
> >         #uid = list[2]
> >         home = list[5]
> >         os.chdir(home)
> >         os.system('cp /tmp/file.tgz .')
> >         os.system('tar -xzf file.tgz')
> > 
> > for u in info_1:
> >         copy(u)
> >         
> > ??????        
> 
> os.suid()

Did you *try* that? It doesn't exist on my system.

'suid' -- meaning 'set user id' -- is not at all what he wants.

He simply needs to set the owner of the file so

os.chown(user) 

will do what he wants.

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